Quality of Life Profile for Adults with Physical Disabilities (QOLP-PD)

Tool Description

Designed to offer a new approach to measuring QOL that is grounded in and congruent with the perspective and experience of people with disabilities.

Based on the Centre for Health Promotion (CHP) QOL model that views QOL as arising out of the ongoing relationship between the person and his/her environment. It is comprised of three domains:
1) Being
2) Belonging
3) Becoming.

ICF Domain:

Quality of Life.

Number of Items:

102

Brief Instructions for Administration & Scoring

Administration:

Can be interview-administered or self-reported.

The items in the 3 domains are grouped into 9 sub-scores. All items are rated on a 5-point scale for satisfaction and importance – ranging from 1 (not at all satisfied/important) to 5 (extremely satisfied/important).

Equipment:None.

Scoring:

Overall scores are made more comprehensible by subtracting 3, leading to a range of scores from negative 10 (not at all satisfied/extremely important issues) to positive 10 (extremely satisfied/extremely important issues).

Interpretability

MCID: not established in SCISEM: not established in SCIMDC: not established in SCI

No normative data have been established for the SCI population

Published data for the SCI population are available for comparison (see the Interpretability section of the Study Details sheet).